Transit: Stories of Movement and Meaning
Transit: Stories of Movement and Meaning is a podcast produced by Working Group 6, directed by Jennifer Redmond and produced, designed, and edited by Daniel Franco Sánchez.
The podcast explores how identity documentation has shaped people’s experiences of citizenship, mobility, belonging, and access to rights across Europe. Through historical stories and personal experiences, Transit connects the past with contemporary debates around passports, identity papers, borders, and recognition, revealing how documents can both enable movement and belonging and become tools of exclusion and control.
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01 Historical Perspective and Understanding Refugees Crisis
In this opening episode of Transit: Stories of Movement and Meaning, we turn to history to better understand the present.
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02 Searching for Origins: Adoption, Identity and Recognition
In this second episode of Transit: Stories of Movement and Meaning, we turn to a largely overlooked chapter of European migration history: the international adoption of thousands of Greek children during the Cold War.
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03 The Architecture of Erasure: Statelessness and Identity
In this third episode of Transit: Stories of Movement and Meaning, we examine one of the most critical and violent tools of state exclusion in the modern world: the weaponization of identity documentation to systematically manufacture statelessness.
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04 The Frontline of History: Rescuing Memory in Real Time
In this fourth episode of Transit: Stories of Movement and Meaning, we turn our attention to the frontline of cultural preservation and the critical battle to protect historical memory during an ongoing military conflict.
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05 The Paper Fortress: Gender, Surveillance, and the Bureaucracy of Belonging
In this fifth and final episode of the season, we bring Transit: Stories of Movement and Meaning full circle by exploring how personal family histories, academic trajectories, and institutional networks intersect to unmask the hidden machinery of state control.